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What Causes Dental Phobia? How Can It Be Overcome? | Metco Dental
Dental Phobia
Dental phobia and dental anxiety are common conditions that affect most patients. As the name suggests, these problems refer to psychological distress that makes us avoid visiting our dentist. To give a statistical data on how common it is, approximately 10% to 15% of the world population avoids preventive dental care due to dental phobia. As you can imagine, this data alone is a